Talk:Surface plasmon polariton

Is this basically the same as ru:Поверхностные поляритоны or is there a specific difference? After reading the intros of both articles, I'm not sure. There is no article about surface polaritons in en:wp. --Oop (talk) 06:00, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Dispersion relation section - big portion of Bull***it
for every formulae one can ask - what is this? where is it from? i've read there "by solving Maxwell equations..." but if you really solving M-eqs, you can get very different relations, like Kx1=Kx2. eps(omega) for electronic plasma - why it is here? why on graphics for frequencies k-vector dependence is shown?

maybe someone just copypasted text portion from some book, without understanding? then let him give source.
 * Those equations are incredibly standard if not necessarily understandable by the casual reader - then again, you are reading about an incredibly technical subject. Any standard text - general ones from Jackson, Saleh, Yariv through to topic-specific ones such as Maier, Homola and Novotny - will give you this derivation and will also lead you through the steps. While yes, a citation would be nice, the derivation itself is also extensive and probably out-of-scope for this page. The graph you're referring to is a method of representing energy (frequency) vs momentum (k), as the avoided crossing shown is directly related to the concept of level repulsion in quantum physics. AnyyVen (talk) 01:09, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Suggested Merge with Surface Plasmon
Hey all, the article over on Surface plasmon seems incredibly redundant with the information here - in fact, most of the subsections (like 'excitation') simply link to this page. AnyyVen (talk) 01:12, 11 October 2017 (UTC)


 * Support. I don't think that "surface plasmon" and "surface plasmon polariton" are literally exactly the same concept, but they are so closely related that they should be the same article. By the way I'm neutral about whether the newly-merged page should be called "surface plasmon" vs "surface plasmon polariton". I think either way is fine. --Steve (talk) 01:41, 11 October 2017 (UTC)